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Birthday June 4, 1906

• The temperature on June 4, 1906 was between 4.7 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
  • August 16 » The 8.2 M_w Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people.
  • September 24 » Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race Riot, further increasing racial segregation.
  • December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
  • December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1903 » Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor († 1988)
• 1904 » Bhagat Puran Singh, Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist († 1992)
• 1907 » Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and politician († 1944)
• 1907 » Patience Strong, English poet and journalist († 1990)
• 1907 » Rosalind Russell, American actress († 1976)
• 1910 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft († 1999)